Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Stylized savagery circa 10,000 BC envisioned by director Patrick Clair, the design talent at Elastic, A52‘s creature FX team and DoP David McFarland thru Omelet for the Feb. 23 release of Ubisoft’s Far Cry Primal action-adventure game.
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Stew Harvey, a former intern and now junior animator at Animade in London gives us a warm and cozy Valentines Day look at just how blinding love can be. [Watch]
Twelve months and 52 VFX artists later, fluid simulation and refracted light take on the starring role in the launch campaign for Sky Q’s wireless TV products courtesy of The Mill’s‘ striking CG work in collaboration with Biscuit director Johnny Green thru agency Brothers & Sisters. [Watch]
Mexican writer/animator/director Jorge R. Gutierrez – who co-wrote/directed the animated feature “The Book of Life” for Reel FX and 20th Century Fox – extends his love affair with Mexico’s pop/folk culture with “Super Macho Fighter,” a mat-slamming new stop-motion series for Nickelodeon. [Watch]
Paris post house Fix Studio and Quad director Bruno Aveillan infuse this French Road Safety spot with a poetic visual chaos that both counters and compliments the emotional punch-in-the-gut delivered by the script from French agency La Chose. [Watch]
After working in commercial 3D production for eight years, Julien Dykmans decided to make his own short film “in order to free himself from the constraints of the workplace”. The result is “La Valse Mécanique” (Waltz Mechanics) a meticulous 3D character opus made possible via European crowdfunding site Ulule. [Watch]
Minimalist design and thoughtful transitions rendered in a hi-con palette add up to powerful story-telling from London director/illustrator/designer/artist Noma Bar thru NYC agency Seiden for NewYork-Presbyterian’s research into immunotherapy and it’s promise for treating cancer. [Watch]
Undaunted after pitching their animated drama series “AIKO” to reluctant networks around LA, creators Evan Viera and Charley Pope committed to develop this atmospheric proof-of-concept teaser about “a young girl who discovers a well of mystical power within herself that she neither wants nor understands.” [Watch]
Shoreditch prodco Golden Wolf build a poignant collage of the excitement and ennui of youth in this dense and collaborative black and white opus for the “Papercut (Grey remix)” track from Grammy-winning producer/musician Zedd. [Watch]
Trip to the late 80s, as NYC graffiti artist and painter Cey Adams and fellow SVA grad Steve Carr recall their days as Def Jam Recording’s in-house design firm called the Drawing Board – creating classic album covers and overseeing the visual style of the artists. [Watch]
Brand New School and Grey New York convey visceral tension with the most unassuming of graphic treatments in this PSA for anti-domestic violence org No More running on Super Bowl 50. [Watch]
Ominous new trailer from Elastic director Patrick Clair for the March 2016 release of HITMAN: The World of Assassination, an episodic game experience with a major live component designed to unfold over multiple seasons. [Watch]
London design and motion house weareseventeen help spread the word about UK charity The Feel Good Bakery who employ disenfranchised youth to make the sandwiches they cater to local businesses with all profits going to feed children in Africa and Romania as well as helping the recent wave of Europe-bound refugees. [Watch]
Part of the global positioning campaign for Jim Beam by The Works Sydney designed to “recruit Millennials and enable them (over time) to charge a premium for their bourbon.” Shot at the Red Studios in LA by SuperPrime director Eli Sverdlov with solid VFX work by Sydney studio Fin. [Watch]
